%0 Journal Article %T Free Trade or Protection: A Literature Review on Trade Barriers %A Jing Ma %A Yuduo Lu %J Research in World Economy %D 2011 %I %R 10.5430/rwe.v2n1p69 %X The purpose of this paper is to, firstly explain the reason of international trade according to recent theories; secondly, collect several sorts of opinions about free trade and protectionism referring to relevant literatures; thirdly describe export barriers in different aspects, such as natural barriers and artificial barriers; lastly from trade regulation perspective introduce WTO as a tool of promoting international trade. %U http://www.sciedu.ca/journal/index.php/rwe/article/view/192